Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Post-War Drama One Life Recounts One Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Efforts and Their Generational Ripple Effects

Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible?: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life is a true story about an elderly man who is forced […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Imagining a Philosophical Conversation, Freud’s Last Session Frustrates More than it Fascinates

Part of the issue with director and co-writer Matt Brown’s Freud’s Last Session is that it can’t decide what the central core of its story actually is. Certainly, a film […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: In Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire, Zack Snyder Goes Inter-Galactic, with Plenty of Slo-Mo and Special Effects

If I’m understanding the stories behind the creation of the latest opus from filmmaker Zack Snyder, it was conceived as a possible Star Wars movie. For whatever reason, that didn’t […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: First The Father, Now The Son Grapples with Family Dynamics, Depression and Doing What’s Best for Our Children

From the French-born writer/director who brought us The Father a couple years back, Florian Zeller unveils The Son, based on his play of the same name (as was The Father […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: James Gray’s Armageddon Time Lacks the Filmmaker’s Visual Style and, Apparently, a Moral Compass

With its misguided heart in the right place, but making all the wrong choices when it comes to executing this story of a young Jewish boy growing up Queens, New […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: An Assassin, A Man-Hunt and a Glimpse of Anthony Hopkins’ Greatness in Otherwise Middling The Virtuoso

The Virtuoso

This is an odd, although not entirely unpleasant, one. Anson Mount plays a professional assassin known only as The Virtuoso (in the credits, at least; I don’t think he’s ever […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Father Brings an Emotional and Stirring Story to Screen with Heartrending Results

The Father

It’s not always easy to adapt for the screen a work originally written for the stage, and the degree to which any such adaptation is successful relies on both the […]

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Film, Film & TV, Film fest

Dispatch: Year’s Most Anticipated Films Round out Toronto Film Festival

Honey Boy

After six full days at a film festival where each day includes screening at least four films (and sometimes more), all the stories, characters and directing styles can start to […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Love, Antosha Chronicles a Life Fully Lived, Lost Too Soon

Love, Antosha

Twice in 2011, I was fortunate enough to have met actor Anton Yelchin, and I can vouch for the fact that he could talk your ear off about all manner […]

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